Junior Teams

The Program Junior Teams program allows young researchers to assemble a small team of 3 to 5 people to work on a scientific project.
The goal is for this junior team to gain experience inproject managementand teamleadership, includingsupervisingone or more master’s or thesis students working on the topic.

Award recipients receive an operating grant of up to 30,000 euros, which is primarily used to cover internship stipends for master’s students, as well as fees for research support staff (e.g., clinical research associates, engineers), travel and fieldwork expenses, and operating costs and laboratory equipment.

The Program Junior Teams program is led byExposUM’s training division

Winning Projects

2026 Campaign

Title: The Impact of Non-Coding RNAs from Flaviviruses on Inflammation.

Acronym: ANCFI

Project Leader: Jim ZOLADEK

UMR: IRIM


Title: Deciphering Plasmodium falciparum Cryptotypes: Genotyping, Phenotyping, and Long-read Sequencing.

Acronym : CRYPTO-X

Project leader: Balotin FOGANG

UMR: LPHI


Title: Island Traditions and Metabolic Syndrome: Plant Archives vs. Local Knowledge in Réunion.

Acronym: TISAN-R

Project Leader: Julien ANTIH

UMR: QualiSud


Title: NewEnvMed

Acronym: NewEnvMed

Project Leader: Jérémy ROLLIN

UMR: CEPEL


Title: Prediction of the Allergenicity of Lipid Transfer Proteins (LTPs) from Novel Plant Protein Sources

Acronym: PredAller

Project Leader: Moïse MICHEL

UMR: IDESP


Title: Study of the impact of menstrual products on biofilm formation by the vaginal microbiota, BioVag

Acronym: BioVag

Project Leader: Anaïs BLACHE

UMR: MIVEGEC


Title: Geospatial and AI-Driven Modeling of the Risk of Rabies Transmission from Animals to Humans.

Acronym: GeoRabIA

Project Leader: Sara MOBSITE

UMR: ESPACE-DEV


Title: Viral Exposure Through Environmental Matrices and Human Practices

Acronym: VIREMH

Project Leader: Matthieu FRITZ

UMR: TransVIHMI